Working with data
The webpage focuses on political parties and their perception of nationalism and national identity. Firstly, the webpage contains a profile of each party in a national context based on basic facts, well known officials, and their electoral gains in national and European elections. Secondly, it gives an analytical insight into parties’ perceptions of national identity and nationalism. The parties are categorised according to mentions of related to national identity issues in election manifestos. These issues cover minorities, national myths, European integration, national sovereignty, integration of immigrants and related categories.
Selected case studies show parties’ "real politics" and strategies using national identity to politicise certain policies, such as using national mythologies in election campaigns. Case studies focus on up to three specific national identity issues for each country. They cover opposite positions of different parties to show different strategies and policies used to attract voters. For this purpose, visual (e.g. billboards) and text (e.g. given speeches) material was analyzed.
Acknowlegment
The Visegrad parties' profiles from 2006 - 2010 are based on a scholarly study published at Masaryk University: Černoch Filip, Husák Jan, Schütz Ondrej, Vít Michal (2011): Political parties and nationalism in Visegrad countries. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Mezinárodní politologický ústav, Monography servies 46, 2011; and on the scholarly paper Husák Jan, Schütz Ondrej, Vít Michal (2012): National identity of the Political parties in Visegrad region and their European dimension, Journal on European Integration and Federalism, Science Po, Nice.
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Green Party (Strana Zelených, SZ)
After year 1990 the key individuals of ecologic movements realized in Civil Forum the environmental dimension of the post-revolution policy. The fragmentation of the Civil Forum in years 1990 – 1991 did not lead to founding of any relevant political formation. Most representatives succeeded in to the Civil Forum and a smaller centre-right party, the Democratic Party. The 1990s were for the Green Party the time of a deep lethargy. Their first positive election result was in the 2002 election with 2.4 % of votes
The Freedom Union – Democratic Union (Unie svobody – Demokratická unie, US-DEU)
The Freedom Union was founded as a result of the fragmentation of the Civic Democratic Party. The clincher for the dividing of ODS was the long time internal tension caused by dubious financial sources the party. The Klaus’s opponents were more liberal in societal issues and the new party was more opinion plural in contrast with ideological environment of chairman Klaus. The Freedom Union was de facto movement liberal in ODS. The party was founded in the 1998 and in the early election in same year gained the representation in the Chamber of Deputies. In the 2002 Freedom Union merged with smaller right-liberal party Democratic Union (DEU) with the new name of the party US-DEU.